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These look far better than the Eduard ones. Eduard have molded the rings of fasteners as being a small diameter than the rest of the body which none of my references support. Looks really odd when you've got them built up.

Yeah, they are closed normally. it's a pain in the arse to mount them all correctly, I did it on mine!

Back end is now all together. I've decided to fix the wings in place as it'll allow me to sort the wing seals out properly and not worry about damaging them as i go. With it being Op. Granby as well, it's all one colour so easy enough to paint. Couldn't resist mocking it up with all the sub-assemblies in place either!

Decided to start getting the rear fuselage together, as it's gonna be a fairly big job getting it all smoothed out and rescribed. I received a set of 3DP intakes from a gentlemen on here and honestly, I wouldn't build another one of these kits without them at this point. They turn the rear fuselage from a floppy mess into a really solid section.

Cheers guys. Short on time the last week or so whilst I smash the overtime. Been pondering how to sort out the wing seals at the moment.

I've made a start on rescribing the bottom of the cockpit as well - The kit gives you precisely NOTHING to work with. I've used the kits decal guide to give me some idea of the layout. Started a weathering base coat on the fuel tanks as well.

Started this year ago, decided to pull it out the stash of doom and get it finished. Aires Cockpit, Exhausts. Quickboost Seats, Master Pitots, RES-IM Wheels. Trumpeter LAU-9 & AIM-9s (Kit bits are rubbish, my F-14D doesn't need either!) Some in progress photos - I used CA for the front dials and managed to melt them somehow. I've replaced them with Airscale decals since I took these photos! I'm also focusing on all the "burn out" stuff first. Airframe will be last thing I do so at the end, everything just drops into place.

Don't assume he wants your input.

I was undecided about getting that cockpit or not for my eventual Hunter rebuild but seeing some Hi-red photos, I think I'll have to.

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No, I put a post up in the Venders forum asking if anyone had one for sale and another member sorted me out.

Max, my latest Sea Fury is on the way from Miami as we speak

Loads of options for getting masks cut? It's a super simple scheme and you'll get a better final product?

Guys, has anyone got any references for this area behind the bulkhead the ejector seat attaches to? I can't find any and I'm not sure if to go with black or Dark Gull Grey!

Check your references for those raised panels. They are present on some aircraft but they're not raised but flush.

to my eyes eric, your marbling needs a bit more blending, in some areas it's a bit too 'obvious' and I'm not sure it'll fade that much with subsequent weathering/clears.

Nacelles have a constant thin gap all the way around. I ended up using a shim of plastic card before I fitted the nacelles. This mean I could sand it flush to the fuselage and had a perfect joint when the pods clipped into place.

Bare with me, trying to sort the photos.

Finished photos of my TAMIYA,Inc. 1/32 F-16CJ. Built with AMS Resin ECM pod and L/h HARM pod, Eduard Model Accessories SNIPER pod, MASTER Static Dischargers, AIRES HOBBY MODELS wheels, GT Resin R/h targeting pod pylon and VideoaviationGBU-38s. Decals were a mixture of kit and Astra Decals. Painted with MRP & Mr Hobby. Seat belts are scratch built, Bomb rack is robbed from the Academy Hornet. I was planning on using the Quickboost seat and Aires wheel wells but they both were far too small! Massive thank you for Joe at Yellow Cake Models for sending my a new lower fuselage after I butchered mine and Fanch at Fancherello models & photos for cutting me the stencils for the tail.

Nah, I spoke to Tomkit and it's designed around the kit part, no alterations to the dimensions.

I'd be interested to see someone 3DP some Spey engines and the nose landing gear leg for the K version. I'd be willing to tackle the rest of the conversion myself.

Tan won't be anytime soon according to the owner I'm afraid!

Some thoughts so far - There's some 3DP texture that'll need killing on some of the curved surfaces and the landing gear. There's no exhaust/turbines/exhaust tube or fan face for the exhaust and intake so that'll need something addressing. Something seems a bit weird with the ejector seat, which I think is missing fabric detail at the moment but we'll see. PE belts are included. Decals look pretty good, they're fantasy printshop (same as Airscale). I'll probably mask and spray all the markings though, rather than decals just for preference.

Been pestering Graham for one of these for a while, managed to pick one up at Telford - So much for my 'Don't buy any kits' mentatility. That lasted precisely 5 minutes! Photos so far, I've split the parts off the majority of the runners and grouped them in bags. Cockpit will be first up, rear wheel well and then I can crack on.

They came back in stock with Relish today, just got the email for the stock alert.